Table 5. Relative abundance of cells and rank by biovolume of 

 diatoms and genera of non-diatom algae in periphyton 

 samples collected from Antelope Creek and Potter Creek 

 on August 10 and 11, 2 000. 



Taxa 



Cyanophyta (cyanobacteria) ^ 

 Anajbaena 

 Oscillatoria 

 Phormi di um 



Relative Abundance and (Rank) 

 Antelope Potter 



Chlorophyta (green algae) 

 Ankistrodesmus 

 Cladophora 

 Closterium 

 En teromorpha 

 Oedogonium 

 Protoderma 

 Spirogyra 

 Stigeoclonium 



Chrysophyta (golden algae) 



Bacillariophyceae (diatoms] 

 Vaucheria 



rare (7) 

 common (5) 



abundant (3) 

 common ( 6 ) 



abundant (2) 



abundant (4] 

 dominant (i; 



frequent (2) 

 occasional (7) 



common (6) 

 common ( 5 ) 



frequent (4) 

 abundant (1) 



occasional (8) 



occasional (9) 



abundant (3) 



^ Formerly known as blue-green algae. 



